Fairs, exhibitions and events calendar 2003 for the packaging, food, beverage and brewing industry. Latest developments and innovations palletiser for palletising, Bottle and can filler for filling and labelling machines for labelling, packers for packaging and packing as well as processing and other equipment.

BeverageIndustry News New Krones MSF Beverage Mixer with Mass Flow Meter. With blending systems for producing nonalcoholic beverages, there is a trend toward automatic solutions rather than mechanic solutions. This is due to the call for more flexibility. Increased product varieties in beverage blending lead to the consideration of many new requirements such as less tolerances for Brix and CO2 values, low O2content, as well as a minimum of product and syrup loss.

Beverage Industry News New outer packaging will be used for the full range of CCAs beverage multi pack cans including CocaCola, Diet Coke, Sprite and Fanta. The decision to adopt the new packaging follows 18 months of cooperative effort by CCA and Visy and the successful completion of commercial trials. The move is consistent with the objectives of the National Packaging Covenant that has been signed by both Visy and CCA. The micro flute packaging will replace coated paper board currently imported into Australia.

Beverage News The Tsingtao Brewery, Chinas largest beermaker, is going to continue its expansion. They will improve their existing beer bottling plants and brewries, upgrade the technology and machines, build new factories and aquire and modernise existing local breweries within China and the Asian region.